A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate. When the elder woman's son arrives with his French maid, everything gets thrown into turmoil.

A month by the lake : At a lakeside resort, an older guest has her eye on a well-to-do bachelor. My life so far : Young Fraser Pettigrew has always been an adventurous child. But with the arrival of his French aunt, Heloise, Fraser enters a truly eye-opening summer of discovery. The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain : A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a hill. Sweet...